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Greetings From Taipei, Taiwan (China) :)

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Greetings from Taipei, Taiwan. I arrived here late yesterday from Hong Kong, very short flight only 1 hour and 30 minutes. Today I visited to Taipei 101 (Chinese: 臺北101 / 台北101), it was officially classified as the world's tallest in 2004, and remained such until the completion of Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2009. In 2011, the building was awarded the LEED platinum certification, the highest award according to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, and became the tallest and largest green building in the world. Some history of that building, you can see it almost anywher from the city. I was not scared up there, almost 400 meters:)


Taipei is the capital of Taiwan, the political, economic, educational, and cultural center of Taiwan, and one of the major hubs of the Chinese-speaking world, population in metropolitan area about 7 million. The city is mixed with old southern chinese lifestyle and ultra modern western style, you can compare partly to Shanghai.Tomorrow morning we'll take a bullet train from Taipei to Tainan, the old capital of Taiwan located in the southwest part of the island and late in the evening back here in Taipei. Now it's afternoon here (2pm) and must continue the city sightseeing :) Anyway, boys here are for my taste :) Hahaha, hugs from China-Jay.

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Jayden
Jayden
8 years ago

Alex , if you want to travel to South-East countries some day it's very easy, still cheap, all the major cities are more developed than in EU or USA countries. But still you can find the difference -of course the population and it'll take decades to make "all" like in Singapore. BTW, This year, most expensive country for living in the world was Singapore, 2nd Tokyo and 3rd HongKong. Big surprise!!! NYC, London, Paris, Geneva in top10 if I remember right. ....ok, please ask me whatever you want to know, I promise to help/and or find information too. Just ask, if not I'll continue sleepening:) hahaha

Flyboi937
Flyboi937
8 years ago

Haven't flown there yet, however appreciate your travelogues....nice to see you get out and enjoy/experience the world.! Thanks for being my friend...don't fly internationally but hope to get to China to see all my friends soon! --Alex

Jayden
Jayden
8 years ago

Hi Jamie, I call it (Formosa Island) as Taiwan, not territory or Republic of China. Almost same like with Hong Kong and Macau. Entities with full diplomatic relations with Taiwan are only in Oceania (6 countries), in Africa (3 countries), in Europe 1 country (Vatican!), in Central America (6 coutries), in Caribbean (5 countries) and in South America 1 state. Taiwan lost its seat in UN 1971 to People's Republic of China. As they call it in Hongkong and Macao, "Mainland China". As you maybe know, my country and this giant "Mainland" have never had good relationships (or in balance) and this is continuing now with The Spratly Islands dispute, an ongoing territorial dispute between Brunei, China (People's Republic of China), Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (Republic of China), and Vietnam, concerning ownership of the islands... Maybe Buddha knows:)

8 years ago

Hey, Jayden, do you call the place 中华民国 [Republic of China]?

LivingInAPotato
LivingInAPotato
8 years ago

Thank you very much and have fun :)

8 years ago

Awesome pics and interesting info as usual....safe travels Jay...thx :D

8 years ago

was stuck in the airport there once. well I was supposed to be stuck in the airport for 16 hours without a visa until my next flight. the airline felt sorry for me and said I was a crew member (China Air)
to immigration and gave me a room at a hotel where the crew was staying. How NICE of them :). I remember there was an air museum outside the hotel it but I was NOT to leave the hotel- I had no visa.